BKC - which battles are you planning?

[Aksu]

Hullo Chaps,
I am leafing through my Salute-fresh copy of BKC and wondering which battles would be fun to try. I have played BKCII quite a bit, mostly Eastern Front, and I sort of feel inclined towards some 1941 action. At least I will then have a chance to try out how my T-35s fare. Poorly, one would assume.
So - my plan is to relax, wait for the 'net hive mind to put it's detective skills to work and iron out the wrinkles in the lists and special rules and whatnot, and in the meantime have some friendly 1941 Leningrad front and 1944 Bagration games based on historical OOBs and enjoy the new aspects of the rules.
Which theatres are you chaps planning?
Cheers,
Aksu

[Steve J]

North West Europe 1944 - Fallschirmjager vs British.
Eastern Front 1941 - Italians vs Russians.
Balkans 1941 - Italians vs Greeks & British.

[Shedman]

Winter War 1939-40

[Matt J]

Ardennes 1944. Got some Tiger II to charge through the snow.  Just got to base the infantry then give the rules a whirl.

[Dr Dave]

North Africa. More Gazala action from May 1942.

[sjb1001]

1942 Kharkov, 1944 Goodwood, building up to persuading the cold war commanders to do Kursk as I now have 230 1/144 T-34s and German armour to match!!

[barbarian]

Prokhorovka's battle : July 12th 1943.

[Aksu]

Prokhorovka's battle : July 12th 1943.

I wonder how BKC handles a really large battle like that, would be fun for sure. 17 years ago we did a fairly large Prokhorovka using Spearhead. http://www.the-ancients.com/gemigabok/prokho/index.htm
We had CICs for each side that were in separate rooms, and brigade commanders around the table.
Cheers,
Aksu

[sjb1001]

The Commander series is fine with large battles - the Cold War Commanders do a mega game once a year and there are huge numbers of stands;

http://coldwarcommanders.blogspot.co.uk/ - look under Aegean Strike for the vastness.

The key is having several large tables and within each there are separate actions which can influence the neighbours (e.g. breakthrough on 1 table leads to forces arriving somewhere inconvenient on another in a turn or two. Basically doing divisional boundaries by proxy but does work well. We did have to be realistic on some aspects as the 2015 game had a preplanned artillery strike of 60 odd dice that just sat over a bridge end for 3 turns - when it landed it took out 20 odd T-72s in a single dump of dice. Good referees are great and Richard Philips is the master of managing games this size.

[slugbalancer]

In 6mm
North Africa - British v German/Italians
NE Europe - British v German

[Itinerant Hobbyist]

6mm Jan 45 Operation Nordwind action.

[Womble67]

Russian Front early and late

Take care

Andy

[Stratoq]

In 10mm:
North Africa 1941
France 1940

Not had a chance yet to play any early war battles.

[Tarty]

Also early North Africa (Beda Fomm) or maybe Abyssinian campaign once I get my copy